Ten minutes earlier, the fortress of the Bethanos Family was bombarded into oblivion by Hessiana using a massive stockpile of weaponry she had accumulated since World War II. The shadelings who stubbornly resisted had mostly been finished off as well. Their defeat proved that the strength of the Hessianite Family, who had been staying relatively low-profile for the last 100 hundred years had actually surpassed that of the shadelings. When the pyschopathic vampires showed up with their high-tech weaponry, the half-demon luddites were crushed to the ground like bugs.
However, their leader had escaped.
By the time they arrived in the basement of the castle, the altar and magic formation had all been destroyed; the key slabs had been smashed into pieces. Bethanos found another warp point, which he had blown up after escaping through it into the ruins.
